Lifesaving Letters by Milena Roth

Lifesaving Letters by Milena Roth

In 1939, in the shadow of Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia, six-year-old Milena Roth was sent away from her home. Drawing on her mother's poignant letters and on her own memories, Roth recounts the challenges of integrating, in adulthood, the wounds of childhood and of regaining the confidence of the place in the universe that had been lost.

"Lifesaving Letters is a moving, insightful work that brings out dimensions of the Holocaust that have been largely overlookedIn addition to conveying the difficulties faced by those few children who were rescued, it reveals the scope of the Nazi assault on the being of the Jew: for those children who were rescued often gained their lives at the cost of their identity, growing up with little sense of what a Jew is and therefore of who they are. Roth is painfully aware of this from her personal experience and does a masterful job of subtly conveying that ambiguity." - David Patterson, University of Memphis "[Lifesaving Letters] is both a moving document from a loving mother who took the painful decision to send away her child, and a fascinating testament by the new elderly Milena, who despite escaping the physical horrors of the Holocaust, was nonetheless a casualty of war... It is difficult to read this account without giving way to tears and, as in Milena Roth's book, the accompanying photographs add an overpowering poignancy, showing, as they do, such happy, optimistic and innocent children."--Jewish Chronicle, May 14 2004

Milena Roth is a retired psychiatric social worker living in England.

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ISBN 13	9780295983776
ISBN 10	0295983779
Title	Lifesaving Letters
Author	Milena Roth
Series	Samuel And Althea Stroum Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Washington Press
Year published	2004-02-01
Number of pages	192
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.